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My DIY home cockpit for Elite Dangerous (version 2)
(discuss.tchncs.de)
o7 CMDRs, made a tiny demo video show-casing the SimPit in Elite Dangerous ๐
Pick your poison:
https://tube.tchncs.de/w/1nokGf66oWj34EdMvxYbSn / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXofGR4GRLk
Just slaughtering pirates (wasn't in the cockpit for months) but you get to see it from a first person perspective this time because I strapped the camera to my headphones ๐
Do Games like this have the ability to control the status indicators? It's not a feature I've seen before but very cool if it can be done. I love this whole thing and will definitely be reading your write-up... Even though I don't have a gaming rig, time to play any games or the money for any of it!
Some offer continuous ship telemetry, but that's mostly games that are more simulation focused and thus more grounded in reality - think flight sim. A few notable exceptions exist, like Fly Dangerous, that serves everything on a silver platter.
ED is a mixed bag. Some information is available in the JSON files it dumps regularly, where they can be consumed by various 3rd party apps, or your own. I've a writeup and a demo video of this specific part in an early state at simpit.dev/version-1/plumbing/
ED is however not very detailed and only dumps information if a certain threshold is reached. We get for example no airspeed in the files but we get latitude and longitude on a planetary and with the radius of the planet (yes, a game made me do Maths!11eleven) we can calculate some missing data to feed e.g. a primary flight display (the one that is stuck in the video - it does operate on a planetary ;-))